5vforest

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   by 5vforest 14y ago

   My thought exactly.
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   by 5vforest 14y ago

   There should be a little "info" icon telling you that we don't have district maps for your city council, so we're showing you everyone in it. Agree about the contact info -- it actually converts into a nav tab on tablet & mobile resolut
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   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Local-level data is definitely one of our main hurdles. I just had an interesting phone conversation this morning where I learned that in the EU, there is a mandated XML standard in which governments must release contact information for pub
4. 124.▲
   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Duly noted! We'll make sure the meat is more easily accessible.
5. 125.▲
   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Something similar is in the works!
6. 126.▲
   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Thanks for the kind words. The data on officials is coming from Project Vote Smart (votesmart.org), but the challenge is relating it to the different map shapes. We built a tool to convert the U.S. Census shapes to KML format (available on
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   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Hey, thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions! We're a small team right now (actually, I'm the lone dev for the site), but we definitely want to integrate a lot of these suggestions -- especially info on campaign contributions and l
8. 128.▲
   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Heh, we've had this discussion before, I actually just had it this morning again too. Thanks for chiming in, I think we'll actually make it happen now.
9. 129.▲
   by 5vforest 14y ago

   Thanks! Those features are definitely in the pipeline -- the data is all there, especially at the federal & state levels. There are sites and APIs that collect this data, but we think we can aggregate it from different sources and perso
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    Show HN: Who represents me in government?(govhub.org)

    34 points by 5vforest 14y ago|28 comments
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    by 5vforest 14y ago

    I like this post, but to me, the gist of this is that we should have "droplets" that do different tasks for an email, so as to cut down on repetitive tasks. I'm all in, but it seems to me that it would be best left to the end user -- if so
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    by 5vforest 14y ago

    Anyone else find it odd that Votizen wants you to share your political views with your social network friends? Political views, for me at least, have always been an inherently private subject matter. Sure, I have my friends who I'll talk po
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Berkeley, CA GovHub is looking for a full-stack web developer to join our team in Berkeley, CA. GovHub is a nonpartisan, web-based citizens' forum that provides a personalized platform for political engagement. We give citizens the tools an
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    George Clooney and how the Media is Broken(blog.mygovhub.org)

    1 points by 5vforest 15y ago|1 comments
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    I wanted to try using "The Watch List", one of the new example apps Sencha developed, but lo and behold, "Sign in with Facebook" is the only option. When will the madness end?
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    In my experience, performance on iOS is fantastic, while Android lags behind a small amount. Sencha isn't quite at the Native speed level yet, although it's certainly close.
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    On the other hand, this makes for a hilarious perusal of his blog.
18. 138.▲
    by 5vforest 15y ago

    What's up with PreloadJS just linking to an empty GitHub repo?
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Looks like it: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/ZCTA5/2010/
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Awesome! Really neat, love the simplicity of it. We're using this for our site, http://www.mygovhub.org , which grabs down to the county & local level. (Although we don't have districts at that level, as they'll have to be inputted man
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    What kind of districts do you need? The CensusShapeConverter can easily be extended to grab any of the data from the Census, which you can browse a list of here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.ht... And yeah, yo
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Hey, thanks for checking it out! And thanks for the Wikimedia link, I had no idea that existed. One of the cool things about this script is that it can be extended to grab any of the data from the Census -- for example, I'm using a less-pol
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Heh, thanks for the link, I had actually seen your site before but wasn't able to find it again. Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but I should make it clear that we're not a government-affiliated entity.
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    KML shapes of any US state, city, or county, made possible by the U.S. Census(github.com)

    84 points by 5vforest 15y ago|33 comments
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    +1 for Berkeley, my rent is less than half of what I would be paying on the other side of the bay, not to mention it's just great out here.
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Yeah, best part about commuting to SV by transit is that you can pretty much work the entire way -- driving might be quicker, but if I work on the train it's like I'm not even losing any time.
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    Had the same issue, was a super easy (one-line) fix in bootstrap-popover.js though.
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    by 5vforest 15y ago

    This sounds horrible... and like it would ruin my productivity towards the end of my work day. How about waking up early to exercise?